Press (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) vol 2 no. 231

The Difficulties in Utah.
The Utah problem, notwithstanding the im-mense sums that have been lavished upon the expedition sent to that country, and the anxiety of the sycophants of the National Ad-ministration to claim for it the credit of hav-ing settled the difficulty there, appears to be as far from final adjustment now as before the army was despatched there. The presence of the troops, naturally enough, excites the ani-mosity of the Mormons ; for no nation likes to have large bodies of soldiers quartered (within it for the purpose of holding it in sub-jection. The parties, however, who fatten upon the spoils of the Federal Treasury, and who subsist upon the money spent for the army, and by those of whom it is composed, desire its continuance in that quarter, and will not permit it to depart from them if they can invent any fair pretext by which their profita-ble connection with it can be continued.
The telegraphic despatch which we published yesterday morning indicates that a deep feel-ing of hostility has been engendered between the army and the judges on the one hand, and the Executive, Governor CUMMING, and the people of Utah on the other. We can scarcely suppose that the Governor would (side with the latter, for whose peculiar tenets he can have no sympathy, without, having some good reason for doing so. The judges appear to have found the Mormon juries entirely intractable, and to have looked, to some extent at least, to the army for aid in this emergency; but in such cases the army can do no good. It is inevitable that the action of juries should be influenced by the nature of the public sentiment prevailing in the community from which they are sum-moned. This defect in the system—if it is a de-fect—exists everywhere outside of Utah, and it is not surprising that it should also exist in that Territory. The only remedy for it which the employment of an army can afford is the declaration of martial law, and the trial of all offenders by its summary process. But since the Mormons have recognised, in a general sense, the authority of the United States Government, and so conducted them-selves as to have enlisted the sympathies of Governor CUMMING, we do not see why the judges and the army of Utah cannot permit the same freedom in that Territory (so long as no flagrant violation of order occurs) as is tolerated in all other portions of the United States. However much the American people may abhor the religious ideas of the Mormons and their polygamous practices, they have no control over those subjects ; and the only functions which the Governor, judges, and army can exercise in Utah are those which might and should be legitimately exercised in any other Territory.
There is reason to hope, from the accounts which have recently been forwarded from Utah, that the influence of the leading spirits who have been foremost in maintaining the imposture of Mormonism among their own people is gradually being greatly weakened, and if no occasion arises to render it necessary for the Mormons to unite closely together in self-defence, the natural spirit of independence indigenous to American soil will eventually de-stroy, of itself, the hold of BBIGHAM YOUNG and his elders upon their deluded followers, and they will become self-thinking, self-acting citizens, like the great body of the people of all other portions of this Union.

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The Difficulties in Utah.
The Utah problem, notwithstanding the im-mense sums that have been lavished upon the expedition sent to that country, and the anxiety of the sycophants of the National Ad-ministration to claim for it the credit of hav-ing settled the difficulty there, appears to be as far from final adjustment now as before the army was despatched there. The presence of the troops, naturally enough, excites the ani-mosity of the Mormons ; for no nation likes to have large bodies of soldiers quartered (within it for the purpose of holding it in sub-jection. The parties, however, who fatten upon the spoils of the Federal Treasury, and who subsist upon the money spent for the army, and by those of whom it is composed, desire its continuance in that quarter, and will not permit it to depart from them if they can invent any fair pretext by which their profita-ble connection with it can be continued.
The telegraphic despatch which we published yesterday morning indicates that a deep feel-ing of hostility has been engendered between the army and the judges on the one hand, and the Executive, Governor CUMMING, and the people of Utah on the other. We can scarcely suppose that the Governor would (side with the latter, for whose peculiar tenets he can have no sympathy, without, having some good reason for doing so. The judges appear to have found the Mormon juries entirely intractable, and to have looked, to some extent at least, to the army for aid in this emergency; but in such cases the army can do no good. It is inevitable that the action of juries should be influenced by the nature of the public sentiment prevailing in the community from which they are sum-moned. This defect in the system—if it is a de-fect—exists everywhere outside of Utah, and it is not surprising that it should also exist in that Territory. The only remedy for it which the employment of an army can afford is the declaration of martial law, and the trial of all offenders by its summary process. But since the Mormons have recognised, in a general sense, the authority of the United States Government, and so conducted them-selves as to have enlisted the sympathies of Governor CUMMING, we do not see why the judges and the army of Utah cannot permit the same freedom in that Territory (so long as no flagrant violation of order occurs) as is tolerated in all other portions of the United States. However much the American people may abhor the religious ideas of the Mormons and their polygamous practices, they have no control over those subjects ; and the only functions which the Governor, judges, and army can exercise in Utah are those which might and should be legitimately exercised in any other Territory.
There is reason to hope, from the accounts which have recently been forwarded from Utah, that the influence of the leading spirits who have been foremost in maintaining the imposture of Mormonism among their own people is gradually being greatly weakened, and if no occasion arises to render it necessary for the Mormons to unite closely together in self-defence, the natural spirit of independence indigenous to American soil will eventually de-stroy, of itself, the hold of BBIGHAM YOUNG and his elders upon their deluded followers, and they will become self-thinking, self-acting citizens, like the great body of the people of all other portions of this Union.